This is a great time to start using Chromebooks with Horizon to support your workforce.
You can reach out to your reseller for more information on how to take advantage of these big cost savings. When you purchase Chromebook Enterprise devices with your Horizon licenses, participating reseller partners are offering special pricing on the combined purchase. VMware and Google are offering a special Chromebook promotion for Horizon customers. New Promotion with Special Pricing to Get you Started Together, Horizon on Chromebooks delivers a powerful enterprise grade solution that provides the workplace flexibility employees are demanding and the security and simplified management IT requires. Additionally, Horizon on Chrome OS has been optimized for running Microsoft Teams, providing better connectivity, less echoing, dropped calls, and improved video quality to keep employees connected and engaged.
With Horizon, end users can securely access their Windows desktop on the Chromebook and have access to all their critical business applications including Windows apps. The Horizon client built for Chrome OS provides your employees with a personalized, feature-rich experience. VMware Horizon securely delivers virtual desktops and applications, creating a digital workspace that enables employees to work anywhere, anytime. VMware Horizon on Chrome OS Delivers and Optimal Experience If you haven’t looked at Chromebooks in a while, now is a great time to give them another look. Chromebook Enterprise devices combine the end-user benefits of Chrome OS with the business capabilities of Chrome Enterprise Upgrade, allowing IT to enable distributed workers to work securely and effectively from anywhere. Chrome OS is a cloud-native operating system that provides end users with a modern experience that deploys quicker than Windows 10, has built-in security, and reduces the total cost of ownership.
Today, more businesses are choosing Chrome OS and finding it meets their business needs for work-from-home and other use cases across financial services, retail, healthcare, and other industries. Chromebook Enterprise Offers a Cost-Effective Alternative to PCs Google Chromebook Enterprise devices combined with VMware Horizon and its virtual desktop client for Chrome OS provides a lower-cost, easy to manage alternative to Microsoft Windows devices and a better user experience than legacy thin clients. VMware and Google have partnered to offer a joint solution that allows you to equip employees with secure, affordable devices that provide access to their business-critical Windows virtual desktops and apps allowing employees to work anywhere. Lead times and prices on PCs have risen due to global chip and component shortages making it difficult to secure the devices you need. The user data directory is the parent of the profile directory. This gives the path to the profile directory. But this might not be as easy as it sounds. To determine the user data directory for a running Chrome instance: Navigate to chrome://version. As you gear up your business – whether it is ramping up full-time hiring or adding seasonal workers to manage the holiday rush – you will need to equip employees with the devices and applications they need to stay productive.
If you’re not sure which version of Mac OS X you’re running, you can find out by simply clicking the Apple logo in your top toolbar, and clicking ‘About this Mac’.Holiday season is right around the corner.
If you’re still running one of the aforementioned software versions, Google encourages you to upgrade to a more modern OS, since there are now security risks (however small) attached to using them. The reason behind the end in support is simple: Apple and Microsoft don’t actively support those platforms any more, and so Chrome will no longer actively support them either. This doesn’t mean Chrome will no longer work, it just means it won’t get any more security or software updates on machines running these versions of the OSes. The company also announced that it’ll be ending support for Windows versions XP and Vista, so it’s not just older Mac users who will no longer get updates. On the Mac side, it’s essentially everything before Apple moved to its California-inspired version names (or anything with a cat name). Google has announced in an official blog post that its Chrome browser no longer supports a number of older Mac OS X versions. Google initially prepared users a few months ago that a move away from these platforms would be coming by the end of this year. Today is that day, and Google Chrome will no longer get software feature or security updates on the following Mac platforms: